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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does D say about a counselor's statement in a group home?
(a) The counselor says that D is wonderful.
(b) The counselor says that D has more potential than any child there.
(c) The counselor says that D is no good.
(d) The counselor says that D's kind of child is a throwaway kid.

2. What does Neeka want to attain?
(a) She has no idea.
(b) Enough money to hire a babysitter for her brothers.
(c) Tupac's level of fame.
(d) A published book.

3. About what does Neeka complain?
(a) The way her mother pays more attention to her brothers.
(b) Her noisy family.
(c) Her mother making her come with them.
(d) Her brother doing something to get in prison.

4. Why is Neeka resentful on the trip?
(a) She does not feel well.
(b) She was supposed to go to the movies with a boy that day.
(c) She was supposed to go to a birthday party that day.
(d) She has to watch her two younger brothers.

5. How is Sly whenever Tash meets him?
(a) Alone and seemingly friendless.
(b) Gushy.
(c) Acts like a Queen.
(d) Cold and aloof.

6. Where do the girls make snow angels?
(a) They do not since the snow is not heavy enough.
(b) In front of their house on the sidewalk.
(c) In the grass by the bus stop.
(d) In the snow on the stage.

7. Why does going to a juvenile detention center seem appealing to Neeka?
(a) For some peace and quiet.
(b) To show solidarity with Tash.
(c) Because then her mother couldn't make her babysit.
(d) She would be horrified to go to such a place.

8. Of what is Tash convinced about Sly?
(a) That he is wealthy.
(b) That he is gay.
(c) That he is a racist.
(d) That he is corrupt.

9. Why does young Albert have to take off his wire-rimmed glasses?
(a) He doesn't wear glasses.
(b) They are fogging up because he is crying.
(c) To go through the metal detector.
(d) So he cannot give them to Tash to make a knife out of.

10. What happens to Tupac when Chapter 10 opens?
(a) He is attacked and severely injured in prison.
(b) He is let out of jail early.
(c) He is sentenced to more time because of hitting a guard.
(d) He learns his brother is arrested.

11. How does Tash refer to himself?
(a) Sister.
(b) The Queen.
(c) Tash.
(d) The Princess.

12. What is one thing Jayjones says black people cannot do?
(a) Sing in public.
(b) Attend church in peace.
(c) Walk too fast.
(d) Look at a cop in the eyes.

13. To what point does the narration move forward in Chapter 10?
(a) The next May.
(b) November.
(c) Two years later.
(d) Three years later.

14. Why is Tash moved?
(a) He is harrassed about being gay and Tash cuts the man.
(b) He is moved to a work camp.
(c) He is not moved.
(d) He asked to get closer to his family.

15. Why do some people take on D as a foster child?
(a) To make her work and keep the house.
(b) As a live in babysitter.
(c) To abuse her.
(d) For the government benefits.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Neeka think she cannot find in her family?

2. Where did Tash play piano before going to prison?

3. How does Tash's recklessness get him in trouble?

4. Who is Daneeka Lucy Jones?

5. Why does Randall not tell his side of the story?

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